Marble game action toy

Abstract

An action toy for playing competitive marble games requiring skill and development of competitive spirit played against time in collecting marbles in a receiver from which they may be rejected, and embodied in a transparent containment cylinder in which the receiver rotates, and all of which is adapted to be revolved and tilted and moved bodily as a unit to apply force to throw the marbles into the receiver.

I claim: 
     
       1. An action toy for the skillful collection of marbles contained therein, and including; an elongated containment cylinder to be manually held and tipped end to end on its axis from a horizontal disposition and having a transparent cylinder wall for observation and with closed ends,   an elongated receiver of tubular cross section for the collection of marbles and extending coextensively within the containment cylinder parallel to said axis thereof near to one side of the cylinder wall and having a transparent side wall,   coaxial trunnions fixed to and extending from opposite ends of the receiver and rotatably projecting through coaxial bearing openings eccentrically positioned in the closed ends of the containment cylinder and exposed for turning by manipulation whereby both the containment cylinder and the receiver depend by gravity from said trunnions,   a target opening through the said wall of the receiver intermediate the opposite ends thereof,   and a multiplicity of marbles loosely captured within the containment cylinder and adapted to be selectively thrown by movements skillfully applied and caught by the receiver through said target opening and collected therein for observation and for subsequent dumping by turning said trunnions.   
     
     
       2. The action toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the target opening through the top side wall of the receiver is of a width to simultaneously pass at least two marbles. 
     
     
       3. The action toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the target opening through the side wall of the receiver is of a width to simultaneously pass at least two marbles, and wherein there are two distinguishable groups of marbles and at least one marble distinguishable from all others.